Example sentences of "expected [pron] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd expected them to be quiet and reserved in their style as they are seemingly in their culture . |
| 2 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 3 | She had expected them to be hard and hurtful , cruelly punishing . |
| 4 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 5 | I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose after those stories Harry told us about you being an asthmatic as a child , I 'd expected you to be delicate , a thin undersized weakling ! ’ |
| 7 | Underneath he 'd expected her to be hard and dry , but she was very soft and moist . |
| 8 | She had expected him to be annoyed at the way she had played him along . |
| 9 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 10 | Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two . |
| 11 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |